Table of Contents:
“…Benjamin Rush on republican education (1786) -- Benjamin Rush on women's education (1787) -- Noah Webster's plea for an American language (1789) -- Samuel Harrison Smith's prize essay (1798) -- Thomas Jefferson's republican philosophy of education (1813) -- Thomas Jefferson on the moral instinct of man (1814) -- Thomas Jefferson's design for his state university -- The Rockfish Gap Report (1818) -- De Witt Clinton on educating New York City's poor children (1805) -- Clinton champions the Lancasterian plan (1809) -- Archibald De Bow Murphey's comprehensive plan for North Carolina (1817) -- Joseph C. …”